My wardrobe of tags.

Good afternoon!
Today I've been altering something else! I've been using a wooden drawer to create a wardrobe. The drawer is stood on its end and has been distressed all over with Walnut Stain (by the ever-so-inspirational Tim Holtz!). I've also added some bobbins with ribbon wound around them to the bottom as little feet. The buttons are all from our stash, as is all the ribbon. The embellishments (eg. the coat hangers that the tags are hung from, the mannequins, bobbins, sewing machine, etc. are from Cuttables Vol. 3 for the craftROBO/Silhouette). The papers used are all from 'The Elegance Collection' CD.

I used 300gsm card for the coat hangers (which works like a dream through the Silhouette Cameo!) and distressed them with my old favourite ink-pad.Now for a close up on the tags that are hung inside the wardrobe:

The sewing machine above is decorated with our 'Cherry Blossom' stamp which is great for editing die-cuts and for around the edge of backing papers. It's also been used on the tag below - along the edges of the mask and papers.

The bobbins, button card, mask and birdcage have all been cut on the Silhouette from Cuttables Vol. 3 (£6.00) and the little distressed dots on the button card have been done with a mask from Cuttables Vol. 3 too!

I hope you like it (I can't stop admiring it at the moment - I'm so proud!)

Have a wonderful day,

Hayley xx

An extraordinary concoction.

Good evening, I am so sorry for being awol just lately but I have managed to pull together a pretty nice project to show you! It's been one of those months (years more like!) where every day just goes so quickly and very little that isn't absolutely neccesary gets a look in! But here we go! I've had a play with a couple of wooden embellishment trays and hinged them together with paper - all papers featured here are from our 'The Elegance Collection' CD.

These first three photos are of the outside - the two sides & the hinge. Keys/Locks/Snowball border/Flower are from our new CD for the craftROBO/Silhouette: Cuttables Vol. 3! Pearls were grabbed from our box of bits along with the beautiful gold button that I pulled off some of my old clothes! The distressed spots are made from a mask on Cuttables Vol. 3 - used walnut stain through it to add a little something to the corners!

 

Right, ow for the inside! The bunting was just made by cutting triangles of 'The Elegance Collection' backing papers and gluing the corner to corner with a slight slope. The die-cut tree is from Cuttables Vol. 3, as is the mesh in the bottom left compartment, the jigsaw piece in the bottom right and the spotted mesh in the top left. I found a couple of old fuses in a sewing box that used to belong to my Grandma, along with a large googly eye (I turned it around and used the back in the middle right compatment) and some absolutely beautiful buttons!

 

Hinges, Flowers and Butterflies were from Cuttables Vol. 2 along with more vintage buttons from my Grandma's box. The little bird charm was one I got from Meiflower when we were stood beside them at a show! The little birdhouse was taken from Cuttables Vol. 3 too. Finally, the hat pins were from a supplier at the craft fairs and tea-rose flowers are available on our website (www.dreamees.org.uk).

Here's a full shot of the inside:

Hope you love it as much as I do!

Now to pack it up for Leicester tomorrow, unless it finds a home somewhere around the house!

Take care & I'll see you soon!

Hayley xxx

Mostly Mens CD!

Hi there! We've got a new CD coming out tomorrow (Friday 27th April!) which is especially for the men in your life! The toppers are also very suitable for women (eg. cooking, TV, golf, other featured sports, musical, etc!) so don't think its a one trick pony because it sure isnt! :) Here's a few cards made with the CD as a taster!

It's just £7.99 for the first weekend (until 9am 23rd April!) and then will return to full price of £9.99!
See you soon,
Hayley

A new design team member!

We're extremely proud to announce that Amy Shaw, a very talented lady, is our latest design team addition!
Here's a video that Amy has done to explain what's going on!



Watch this space (and check out Amy's blog - listed down the right-side of this page) to see just what beautiful things Amy comes up with!

Take care,

Hayley xx

Another big one!

Sorry I've been saving these for large posts - I always kick myself when it comes around to blogging, but I get so excited making the cards that I'm on a roll and just have to keep going and going!

So, here we go:

The above card was made with 'Evie sitting down' and papers from 'The Elegance Collection' CD - die cuts are from 'Cuttables Vol. 2' - all the flowers are made from die-cuts from this CD layered and coloured with either distress ink or promarkers.

The above card was made with papers from 'The Elegance Collection' CD - die cuts are from 'Cuttables Vol. 2' - all the flowers are made from die-cuts from this CD layered and coloured with either distress ink or promarkers. The plaque is edged with 'Cherry Blossom' and the sentiment is featured with 'Evie sitting down' stamp.

The above card was made with papers from 'The Elegance Collection' CD - die cuts are from 'Cuttables Vol. 2' - and the topper image is our 'Evie on a swing' stamp.

The above card was made with papers and images from 'The Elegance Collection' Stamp set and CD - die cuts are from 'Cuttables Vol. 2' - and the sentiment image is sold within our 'Evie on a swing' stamp set.

The above card was made with papers and images from 'The Vintage Collection' CD - die cuts are from 'Cuttables Vol. 2' - and the sentiment image is sold within our 'Evie on a swing' stamp set. The topper image is sold in our 'The Elegance Collection' stamp set and is also separate (HERE)

The above card was made with papers and images from 'The Elegance Collection' - die cuts are from 'Cuttables Vol. 2' - and the sentiment image is sold within our 'Evie on a swing' stamp set. The main topper is our 'Wheelbarrow' clear stamp and the scalloped bunting is now available as a GSD download.

The above card was made with papers and images from 'The Elegance Collection'  - die cuts are from 'Cuttables Vol. 2' - and the sentiment image is sold within our 'Evie sitting down' stamp set. I also used our heart bunting GSD file.

Now, these three cards were made by our very talented Jayne - you can view her blog here where more details of these cards is listed!

Thanks for looking & I'll see you again soon!

Hayley x

This is a big one...!

Good morning!

It's been a while hasn't it?

I do have LOTS of cards to share - most of which are from our extremely talented design team and some made by us at Dreamees!

The ones below are made by the lovely Doreen:

 

View details about the card here

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View details about the card here

Now, these ones are made by Jo!

You can view details about all 3 cards here

And finally, a few from Dreamees HQ!

The tag above has been made with papers from 'The Elegance Collection CD', the main image is 'Evie Sitting Down', along with the sentiment stamp from 'The Elegance Collection Stamp Set' - coloured with pro-markers (video tutorials HERE) with some various paper tea-roses and a bit of ribbon! A normal peg has also been used to embellish at the top of the tag, I stamped a chandelier from 'The Elegance Collection Stamp Set' with 'Broken China' distress ink and added glamour dust on top with a quickie glue pen!

The card above has been made with papers from 'The Elegance Collection CD', the main image is 'Evie on a Swing', along with the sentiment stamp that comes with her has been used in the top left corner.

The above flower arrangement has been made with our beautiful 'Forever Florals' double CD - it's a point of display for our stand at the NEC in November and is just the start of how amazing our stand will be looking! I can promise you, it's going to be worth seeing!

And, this final card has been made with our April Freebies that are available to our members - they'll exclusive for members and will not be available to anyone who registers as a member fter April - you can register here for just £5 for the year, regardless of when you join.

Hope you like all these cards!

See you soon,

Introducing Evie!

Well, I've been playing around with our seasonal sweetie character and have developed them into some new on-trend beauties. Here we go... introducing Evie!

She's going to be available as both a digital image and a clear-stamp (both available from www.dreamees.org.uk)

All papers on the cards are from my favourite CD at the moment: The Elegance Collection!

Hope you like :)